Therapy with Dede on the Farm Dede sees individual clients and facilitates groups on her farm, just a 20-minute drive from Nashville. The pastoral setting is a perfect fit with Dede's relaxed, gentle approach to working with clients. She is a highly effective, innovative, experiential therapist, working with addiction, codependence, depression, relationship issues and post-traumatic stress disorder. In addition to her general counseling practice, Dede brings her own distinctive approach with equine-assisted psychotherapy to the services she offers. Her approach to experiential equine counseling is a unique blend of her knowledge of horses, general principles of equine-assisted psychotherapy and her in-depth training with experiential therapy methods. She has developed equine therapy programs for addiction and dual-diagnosis treatment centers, and her work (via her equine program at The Ranch) has been featured in a BBC documentary. Therapy with Dede can involve anything from working in her therapy room, to talking on the back deck, to taking a walk in the woods, to spending time with her "co-therapists" (the horses). Dede is also an enlightening and entertaining speaker and trainer. To learn more or to schedule a consultation, call 615-792-2548 or email ponypeople@earthlink.net.

Dede's inspirational story, "The Promise," is included in The Healing Touch of Horses, edited by A. Bronwyn Llewellyn Learn more about The Ranch, where Dede is the equine therapist.